Testseek.com have collected 233 expert reviews of the Asus UX305FA Zenbook and the average rating is 82%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Asus UX305FA Zenbook.
March 2015
(82%)
233 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(78%)
1795 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Excellent battery life
Thin
Wellbuilt chassis
Completely quiet—there's no fan or spinning HD
Sleek all-aluminum design
Great keyboard and touchpad design
Thin profile and lightweight chassis
Flawless screen
Fanless
Quiet cooling system
Great price
Solid construction
Good mix of features for the price
Good keyboard and OK trackpad
Microsoft Signature edition is available
Good battery life
Good port selection
Decent 1080p IPS panel with a matte finish
Which is becoming rare
Superthin and superlight
Aesthetically pleasing
Screen looks good
DPI scales nicely
Excellent build quality
It's fanless
Includes a fast SSD (benchmarked at ~475MB/s read/write)
Price compared to competition
Thin and light. Aluminum construction. Fanless design
Thanks to Intel Core M processor. Full HD-resolution display. Comfortable keyboard and touchpad. All-day battery life in our tests.
Surprisingly affordable
Superthin aluminum body
Bright matte screen
Quiet
Fanless design
Extra long battery life
Low price for a stylish and classy notebook with plenty of ports despite slim design. Ample RAM and storage. Nice matte IPS display
Light
And attractive
Handsome full HD display
Comfortable keyboard and touch pad
Fanless and silent
Great specs for the price
Core m offers reasonable office performance
Thin and light
Solid and sexy
And quiet as a mouse. Twice the RAM and storage of competing models from Apple and Dell
But for less money. Gorgeous screen
Comfy keyboard
Allday battery
Bright
Contrast-rich IPS screen
Stable
High-end case
Very good input devices
Silent operation
Hardly gets warmer
Fast SSD
Maintainable
USB-to-Ethernet adapter
The editors didn't like
Keyboard is not backlit
Underwhelming battery life
Lacks keyboard backlight
So-so CPU performance
No touch or backlit keyboard option
If you're into those
Some backlight bleed around the edges of the display
Core M and the HD 5300 GPU are significantly slower than Broadwell-U or Haswell-U
Dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi instead of 802.11ac
Touchpad can be finicky
Mostly with regards to clicking
Middling performance in testing. No touch screen. Speakers are disappointing
Core M can lag in performance
Quiet speakers
No backlit keyboard
Webcam has poor white balance
No touch screen
Keyboard isn't backlit
Intel Core M is slower than Core i series
Mediocre performance
No USB-C port for charging or external display
Keys aren't backlit
My kingdom for backlit keys. Lacks the sex appeal of Dell's onlyslightlypricier XPS 13. Oddball screenhinge design can cause some slippage while you type. Weak builtin speakers are an affront to ears everywhere
Published: 2015-04-24, Author: Rick , review by: wired.com
Thin and light, solid and sexy, and quiet as a mouse. Twice the RAM and storage of competing models from Apple and Dell, but for less money. Gorgeous screen, comfy keyboard, allday battery
My kingdom for backlit keys. Lacks the sex appeal of Dell's onlyslightlypricier XPS 13. Oddball screenhinge design can cause some slippage while you type. Weak builtin speakers are an affront to ears everywhere
Abstract: Asus may have copied the MacBook Air wholesale with its ZenBook range, first launched in 2011. But with this year's new ZenBook UX305F the Taiwan manufacturer pipped Apple to the post by coming to market first with its Air clone using the intriguing new I...
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Published: 2015-04-15, Author: Brian , review by: pcmag.com
Thin and light. Aluminum construction. Fanless design, thanks to Intel Core M processor. Full HD-resolution display. Comfortable keyboard and touchpad. All-day battery life in our tests.
Middling performance in testing. No touch screen. Speakers are disappointing
With its ultraslim profile, the Asus Zenbook UX305FA-ASM1 midrange ultraportable certainly redefines the concept of thin. Unfortunately, its performance isn't as impressive....
The Asus Zenbook UX305 is an affordable portable ultrabook that almost feels like a no-compromise machine. Clearly you shouldn't expect the same kind of performance from a $699 laptop as you'd get from a high-end device that sells for twice the price, b...
ASUS has crafted an elegant experience with the UX305. The body is a sleek creation of aluminum, the device is very thin, and at 1.2 kg (2.6 lbs) in weight, it is very portable. The UX305 could easily be mistaken for a device which costs far more than its...
Sleek all-aluminum design, Great keyboard and touchpad design, Thin profile and lightweight chassis, Flawless screen, Fanless, quiet cooling system, Great price
Underwhelming battery life, Lacks keyboard backlight, So-so CPU performance
It's actually really hard to think of something that we didn't like about the device. The ASUS ZenBook UX305 is everything what a traveler or businessman would want. It's lightweight, sturdy, durable, premium materials are used for the making of the ultra...
Abstract: If Apple's new 12-in. Retina MacBook is any indication, the laptop is no longer considered an endangered species -- as long as it's slim and lightweight. However, while the new MacBook is extraordinarily portable and comes with an impressive display, it's...
Published: 2015-03-02, Author: Tony , review by: techspective.net
Bottom line—for $699 this is a bad-ass machine. I made my living for almost three years on an 11-inch MacBook Air that I loved. In both form and function the Asus Zenbook UX305 ultrabook is as good or better than the MacBook Air. The UX305 also costs $200...
Low price for a stylish and classy notebook with plenty of ports despite slim design. Ample RAM and storage. Nice matte IPS display
No touch screen, keyboard isn't backlit, Intel Core M is slower than Core i series
Asus is that company that delivers a classy looking product for less money, and this time they've outdone themselves with a really sexy looking Ultrabook that's priced several hundred dollars below the competition. That is, as long as you like deep plum l...
